Category:Apkallu

Apkallu

A variety of sea bird that lives in flocks on Near Eastern islands. On dry land, Apkallu only waddle about on their short legs, but the ocean is a different story. They propel themselves through the water with finlike wings at high speeds, enabling them to catch fish. In the Near East, the Apkallu are a protected species and are referred to as "The Sages of the Sea." Perhaps that is why Apkallu do not fear people and behave in a friendly manner. However, angering an Apkallu is not recommended.

Apkallu have a communal hate based on how many you have killed (like Tonberries and Fomor). As your Apkallu hate goes up, they start using a larger variety of attacks (initially they only use Yawn, but will eventually resort to repeated use of Frigid Shuffle), start to react violently to White Magic (including attacking healers even after extremely low Cures), and become very difficult to kill (gaining both physical and magical damage resistance to the point of near invulnerability). As Apkallu hate rises, their rate of multiple attacks and Counter use will increase as well. Indeed, angering an Apkallu is not recommended. It is currently unclear how to lower Apkallu hate rapidly, though it will decrease over long periods of time.

Apkallu hate appears to be area based. Which means, if a group of people caused high Apkallu in an area, another group which comes later will still receive the hate effect. It is possible to trade certain fish (Ahtapot, Veydal Wrasse) to the Apkallu NPCs, which makes them follow you around. Preliminary tests shown that hate raises rapidly with the following NPC Apkallu looking at the player killing other Apkallu. Also, after a certain amount of hate is accumulated, the NPC 'green' name will turn yellow indicating that the player has accumulated a large amount of hate. NPC Apkallu does not seem to appear when there is high hate in an area.

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